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[Keith McMullen]

On Nov 11, 2005, at 10:00 PM, Cometman wrote:
that is eerie, and possibly pynchonically intended - after all, he
named a whole character in Vineland after a Bible verse, a-and doesn't
he delve in to Genesis a couple times in GR

It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels 
broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a 
gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the 
last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- 
only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an 
aggregate of last moments. (p. 148)

Kekule's dream here's being routed now past points which may arc 
through the silence, in bright reluctance to live inside the moving 
moment, an imperfect, a human light, over here interfering with the 
solemn binary decisions of these agents, who are now allowing the 
cosmic Serpent, in the violet splendor of its scales, shining that is 
definitely not human, to pass without feeling, without wonder (after 
you get a little time in whatever that means over here one of these 
archetypes gets to look pretty much like any other, oh you hear some of 
these new hires, the seersucker crowd come in the first day, "Wow! Hey 
that's th-th' Tree o' Creation! Huh? Ain't it! Je-eepers!" but they 
calm down fast enough, pick up the reflexes for Intent to Gawk, you 
know self-criticism's an amazing technique, it shouldn't work but it 
does.... (p. 411)